The ruling Georgian Dream party has announced that they again want to try and pass a controversial law that aims to limit foreign influence. A similar law was proposed in 2023 but was dropped after ma...
Across the world, women human rights defenders continue to call for justice, peace, and gender equality – despite facing immense challenges. Still, or maybe because of that, they continue to figh...
On 23 November, Civil Rights Defenders and 18 human rights organisations participated to discuss the use of international litigation mechanisms related to the protection of human rights. The aim of th...
Civil Rights Defenders call on Georgian authorities to closely follow up on court decisions made towards human rights defenders to prevent punishment of human rights defenders and to ensure the peacef...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns attack on Pride Fest in Tbilisi and expresses deep concern about developments in Georgia during Pride Week. Yesterday, 8 July, Tbilisi Pride was forced to cancel its pl...
Civil Rights Defenders condemn the detention of Georgian civil society members Eduard Marikashvili, Chairman of Georgian Democracy Initiative; Saba Brachveli, an employee of Open Society Fou...
Despite protests from Georgian independent media and civil society, the Georgian parliament has registered a so-called “Foreign Agent” bill. The legislation is threatening the work of civil society or...
Last month, Civil Rights Defenders opened a regional office in Tbilisi, Georgia. Now we will partner with local human rights organisations in the country for the first time. The focus of our work in G...
Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president of Georgia, has been on a hunger strike since his detention on 1 October 2021. The doctors subsequently reported that Saakashvili’s health condition became crit...
While the Georgian local elections on 2 October were well-administered and contestants could campaign freely, the election process was tainted by widespread allegations o...
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